Enbridge Inc’s new 450,000 barrel-per-day Seaway Twin pipeline, to carry Canadian oil sands crude to North America’s largest refining complex on the U.S. Gulf Coast, will likely start operating in October, the company said on Friday. Enbridge, Canada’s biggest pipeline company, said mid October is most likely when the Seaway Twin will be filled with crude from the company’s new 600,000 bpd Flanagan South pipeline. Seaway Twin will carry crude from Cushing, Oklahoma, to oil tanks near Houston, and although the pipeline was mechanically completed in early July, it will not start operating before Flanagan South, which will run from Illinois to Cushing, is finished in early October. Traders have been closely monitoring the progress of the two pipelines, which will give Canadian oil sands producers another direct link to the Gulf Coast. “The plan had been, and still is, to do line fill for […]

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